Forging a Sword Box

Forging a Sword Box

After Pang Fu bade Xu Fan farewell, Xu Fan came to the courtyard.

At that moment, the two siblings were watering the somewhat withered Spirit Rice.

Watching Xu Gang carrying a bucket behind him and Xu Yuexian using a ladle to water the plants, Xu Fan smiled. They were such sensible siblings.

"Come over here. Watering them like that won't work."

"Come here, I'll show you a spell."

After the two came over, Xu Fan formed a Dharma Seal with his hands. An enormous Spirit Rain Art covered more than ten mu of Spirit Rice at once.

Taking out ten Spirit Stones, Xu Fan directly crushed them with his spiritual power and scattered them into the dark clouds of the Spirit Rain Art.

"Calling the wind and summoning the rain—Master, I want to cultivate immortality soon." Xu Gang said excitedly. Just imagining himself wielding such methods in the future made him thrilled.

Excitement shone in the Little Girl's eyes as well.

"You still can't cultivate immortality yet. First, you need to attend the Teaching Hall and learn the most basic words and cultivation knowledge."

"Once you step onto the path of cultivation, you will face the pain of longevity. Are you willing?" Xu Fan asked the siblings seriously.

"We are."

What did children know anyway? Xu Fan thought to himself.

The next day, Xu Fan brought the two siblings to the Immortal City where the newly admitted Outer Sect Disciples were located. This time, he did not run into his bargain father-in-law.

Outside a Teaching Hall, Xu Fan handed one hundred Spirit Stones to Xu Gang.

"For the next three months, you will study in the Teaching Hall. There are people here specifically assigned to look after you."

"Every noon, take Yuexian to the Teaching Hall Canteen to eat some Spirit Food."

"After three months, I'll come pick you up. By then, you can truly begin cultivating immortality."

"Study diligently. If you can't learn it, you'll have to stay here and keep studying." Xu Fan instructed them. At that moment, he suddenly felt like an Old Father.

"Master, I'll study hard." X2

"Good. Whoever learns best will receive a reward."

After saying that, Xu Fan greeted the teacher beside him, then left amid the reluctant gazes of the siblings.

Artifact Refining Peak, Earth Core Workshop.

The disciple guarding the entrance smiled as soon as he saw Xu Fan. "Junior Brother Xu, you haven't come in a long time. Supervisor Wang misses you every day, afraid something might have happened to you."

"Haha, I've had some things to handle lately, so I haven't been refining artifacts." Xu Fan said. It felt like how, in his previous life, if he stopped visiting an internet café he frequented for a long time, even the owner would worry a little.

"What room will Senior Brother Xu be opening this time? Still an advanced Artifact Refining Room?" asked the disciple responsible for collecting fees at the entrance.

"A First-Rank Flame Fire Artifact Refining Pool." A faint smile appeared at the corner of Xu Fan's mouth. In truth, with his current abilities, he could already forge Treasure Artifacts. It was simply that Qi Refining Stage cultivators had no use for them, and he had not lacked Spirit Stones at the time, so he had done whatever he pleased.

The Outer Sect Disciples at the entrance all looked toward Xu Fan.

"Junior Brother Xu, are you confident you can forge a Treasure Artifact?" The disciple at the entrance asked, his gaze burning. The Heavenly Gate Sect was desperately short of Artifact Refiners. On Artifact Refining Peak, nearly every Artifact Refiner with an official rank had been pulled aboard the Floating Sky Vessel, leaving the entire Earth Core Workshop deserted.

There was not a single official Artifact Refiner left in the entire Outer Sect's Artifact Refining Peak.

"Haha, how could that be? I just have a piece of Titanium Stone that needs melting." Xu Fan said.

Keeping a low profile was impossible. It was impossible for an entire lifetime.

"Oh. If Senior Brother Xu is interested, you can take on missions to repair the Floating Sky Vessel. The Contribution Points and Spirit Stone rewards are extremely generous."

"The prerequisite is that you can purify Iron Spirit Ore to above premium quality." Hearing that Xu Fan was not forging a Magic Artifact, the fee-collecting disciple said somewhat disappointedly.

"Oh, I'll try it another day."

Xu Fan paid one thousand Spirit Stones and entered the first-rank area with his Token.

For a Qi Refining Stage cultivator to forge a Magic Artifact, ordinary low-grade Spiritual Fire was generally no longer sufficient. They had to rely on a higher-grade Spiritual Fire with attributes. Flame Fire was Spiritual Fire weakened and dispersed from Earth Core Fire, and it was more than enough to forge ordinary Treasure Artifacts.

Inside the first-rank Flame Fire Artifact Refining Room, Xu Fan looked at the isolated Flame Fire pool and wondered whether he should acquire some Spiritual Fire himself.

"Forget it. Before reaching the Foundation Establishment Stage, even storing Spiritual Fire would be troublesome."

"Any random type of Spiritual Fire costs over two hundred thousand Spirit Stones. I'll talk about it later." Xu Fan sighed as he looked at the Flame Fire pool.

Xu Fan did have over two hundred thousand Spirit Stones, but if he spent them now, his plan for an army of Puppets would be gone.

"A Sword Box? Could the protagonist's old grandpa be a Sword Cultivator? And the kind with a huge quantity of swords?"

Xu Fan shook his head and laid out the prepared materials one by one.

"Space Sand, Five Elements Attribute Materials, along with materials bearing Light, Dark, Lightning, Wind, and Star Attributes."

"The main body will use Void Iron. The main Array Formation engraved will be a Spirit Gathering Array, while the small spaces for holding individual swords will have conversion arrays engraved separately through branching channels."

"The most important thing is Geng Metal. This is what will nourish the flying swords. They really are willing to part with it—I need to keep a small piece for myself later."

"As for preventing the flying swords from getting bored, I'll put a Library Jade Slip in every small space that holds a sword. That'll do."

Using the Flame Fire, Xu Fan began refining the materials one by one. The Void Iron fused with the Space Sand, while only the purest attribute essences remained from the ten types of attribute materials.

Slowly, a slightly fan-shaped Sword Box took form, with several inlaid slots on its surface.

Within the Sword Box, small spaces specifically for storing swords formed one after another.

After all the small spaces had formed, Xu Fan began controlling the refined attribute essences, merging them into each small space in batches.

A day later, the Sword Box had taken shape, and Xu Fan began the final task: engraving the Array Formations.

In his previous life as a Homebody, Xu Fan had especially enjoyed games with a high degree of freedom, because there he could create everything according to his own preferences.

Especially in the game My World, as long as one's imagination was vast enough, one could create anything one envisioned. That was also why Xu Fan liked Artifact Refining.

He could easily forge things he liked, provided his reserve of Runes was rich enough.

It was like programming in his previous life: as long as the hardware kept up, one could even create a girlfriend.

"The main Spirit Gathering Array needs to connect to Attribute Conversion, and a Spirit Stone Conversion Array must be attached externally."

"Since I added Space Sand, I need to add some Space Stabilization Runes as well. Then I'll use Void Suppressing Runes."

Another half day passed before Xu Fan finished engraving all the Array Formation Runes, and the Sword Box was finally complete.

"Mm, it's a minor masterpiece among First-Rank Treasure Artifacts. It did that piece of Soul Iron justice."

Xu Fan put away the Sword Box, intending to deliver it to Pang Fu before returning to cultivate and rest.

Yet the moment he left the Earthfire Workshop, he was stopped by an Outer Sect Elder from Artifact Refining Peak.

"Youngster, that's not very decent of you." The Outer Sect Elder looked at Xu Fan with excitement in his eyes. He had been driven out by the Peak Lord of Artifact Refining Peak from the Inner Sect, who had told him to dissolve himself if he could not find a first-rank Artifact Refiner proficient in Rune Engraving.

Yet as soon as the Outer Sect Elder came out and wandered around the Earth Core Workshop, he encountered a treasure.

Looking at the Elder in the Nascent Soul Stage, Xu Fan felt that something was wrong. Would he have to stop leaving his Mountain Peak in the future as well?